Art of the Early Middle Ages
Rick Steves’ Europe Season 12 showcases Europe’s great art and architecture. © 2024 | After Rome's fall, Europe's Christians kept culture alive with art rooted in their deep faith. We visit sturdy Romanesque churches filled with art that reinforced the ruling order. Meanwhile, Europe was invigorated from the fringes: Byzantines to the East, with their dazzling mosaics; Spanish Muslims with their lush palaces; and fierce Vikings of the North - all part of Europe's rich cultural stew. #ricksteveseurope #artofeurope #arthistory
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Your videos are fantastic and so is your intro music. Always a delight!
Greetings and hugs from near the Grand Canyon! Keep up you being you! Awesome shows you've done . So informative. Wish i had your itinerary!
Demek Romalı senatörler kiliseye piskopos oldular?Gözlerim faltaşı gibi açıldı (!)Böyle güzel anlatımı hangi kitapta bulabilirdim bilmiyorum.thanks.
Thank you for this excellent video about art in the Early Middle Ages!
You are my all time favourite person and only one whom I have been following since 2020😊
Thank Rick...❤
Very educational and informative! Thank you so much!
Love the church of San Vitale in Ravenna.
how I wish I could go around Europe 📿🙏😍 Watching here fr. the Philippines 🇵🇭
Good analogy between the Roman Empire and the Christian Church. Rick Steves got it right when he said the Senators became Bishops (or Cardinals) and the Emperor became the Pope. That is exactly the way the Roman Catholic Church evolved.
Good content, but it’s all recycled. Nothing new here. All old content, and I know, because I am a big Rick Steves fan.
The old introductory music is back! ❤
The art of the European middle ages is among my favorite.❤🎨🖼🎭😊 23:07
7:42 what city is this? Excellent program, thank you!
That's the fortress city of Carcassonne, France!
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you forgot the amazing uniqe byzantine chapel of Ravenna or the one in Paudua
Just visiting Byzantine recently, the Hagia Sophia was amazing, as well as basilica Cristin in Istanbul.
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The same can be said today: "Desperate erate for security, they bowed down to the local warlord, who was armed with a castle and knights, and backed by the church. The lord promised land and protection..." Anyone who can smell the fall of today's "Roman Empire "?
That's not at all accurate. Today, Western society and beyond aren't politically, economically and socially constrained by lifetime "caste" systems. Mobility is to be seen everywhere, quite honestly, as is the representation of all peoples in actively participating in global change. Of course the rigors of history to create this advancement always stems from repression and subjugation.
Odd to say that the Roman Emperor was replaced by the Pope when all of the barbarian kingdoms of the early medieval period recognized the Byzantine Emperor as the Roman Emperor until Irene became empress and prompted Charlemagne's usurpation of the title in ~800
2:12 The WESTERN Roman Empire.......The ESTERN Roman Empire STILL STANDING ☝️☝️☝️☝️💪
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There are only two people I have met, where the image of them being excreted by ogres, brings me comfort. 🙂
My sister-in-law! 😂
❤ Mavelous speaking history appreciated your entire work good luck. PAKISTAN
After western* Rome fell. There is no “Byzantium” only the Eastern Roman Empire. Classic Western European disingenuousness to downplay the legacy of Constantinople
While this is often the case, I don’t think he downplayed the Eastern Empire at all. Whether you want to call this Byzantium or not is hardly relevant, what is important is recognising that Constantinople continued the Roman Empire of the East and was well ahead of Western Europe in culture and learning , a fact that was covered in this programme.
I'm afraid that I find this outdated approach quite irritating